Jonty Adderley On Skrufff.com & Skrufff-E

Covering dance music and club culture since 1992, Jonty Adderley has written about and interviewed literally thousands of musicians and DJs for magazines, radio stations and websites all over the world. From being Muzik Magazine's first feature writer to founding and running Dancesite.com and publishing Mezzmusic's weekly Newzz,, he's recently gone independent to set up Skrufff.com.

Q: Why is the new operation called Skrufff-
Skrufff.com: (Jonty Adderley)"We named it after my partner Benedetta Ferraro's dog Skrufff, a Staffordshire Bull Terrier who's quite possibly the cutest dog in the world. The site is fully independent and fully owned by us so it seemed a good idea to name it after one of our pets. She looks good on a T shirt too, and I like to hope that one day the whole world will be dressing 'Skrufffy'."

Q: Why are there 3 'f's in Skrufff-
Skrufff.com: (Jonty Adderley)"We're looking for members who actively want to receive our stuff, rather than loads of casual netheads. We're generally writing for people who have some degree of active enthusiasm about dance music so the difficult spelling should act as some kind of a filter. Having said that, we're always actively considering newcomers to dance music when we're writing and interviewing, so hopefully the spelling doesn't deter too many people."

Q: What's your background in writing about dance music-
Skrufff.com: (Jonty Adderley)"I started writing for an Italian pop magazine called Tuttifrutti in 1992, joining European satellite TV channel Superchannel in the same year, where I ended up doing hundreds of TV interviews. I did pop interviews such as Blur, Eternal and Phil Collins during the next 3 years as well as interviewing numerous jazz legends for a programme called Talkin' Jazz. I was also regularly covering DJs and clubs from 1992 onwards, for Superchannel, Tuttifrutti and a Bangkok magazine called Caravan. I then joined Muzik when they launched in 1995 as their lead feature writer, handling drugs issues and general pieces on such topics as like aliens in psi-trance, hearing damage in clubs and London's lipstick lesbian scene. I left Muzik in 1997, shortly after setting up dancesite.com."

Q: When did you first get into clubbing-
Skrufff.com: (Jonty Adderley)"I missed out on the Summer of Love because I'd got married and was attempting to settle down at that point, but by 1991 I'd started going to raves and it was at Castlemorton in 1992 that I first met Spiral Tribe. They inspired me tremendously and I found the self-belief to take control of my life again, quitting my dull dreadful day job and returning full time to club culture and music. In pre-acid house days I'd been a heavy clubber too, ending up living in New York in 1984/85. I used to work at the city's best nightclub Danceteria and spent one of happiest periods of my life in the city going out literally seven nights a week for 6 months . The clubbing only stopped when I was crushed by the freight elevator at Danceteria and almost died."

Q: You were crushed by a lift…!-
Skrufff.com: (Jonty Adderley)"That's right, it was a bizarre accident in which I was effectively cut in half across my waist, and dragged up the shaft between the elevator's base and the wall. I ended up with six normally fatal internal injuries, received the Last Rites and went through an 8 hour operation and 3 day coma before waking up in hospital, wired up to loads of machines. Even weirder, it happened at 9.09 pm on the 19th of September."
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